Balancing the towns prices and wages.

*smooches Aro* Will do, but seems we solved the economic and social problem between the towns...all for one and one for...everyone!

My Apologies Lord Arogandor.

Aurora curtsies regally.

In spite of the fact that i'm not in town right now i have heard of the balancing of town prices.

I read some suggestions that the price of iron or mining iron is not right. Or the price of coal. That's right.

I think that the price of iron ore, selling for 1 bronze, is not enough to cover all the costs. And think i know a lot of it because i'm an experienced miner. Some writers mentioned the costs of hiring BOB, the stamina to travel to the mine, the life points you lose when fighting Bambi (no kidding, even a nice dear can kill you out there), the life points you lose in the mine when stone is falling on your head, the stamina it takes to mine the ore and the los of points on your pick axe when mining.

For all this you should get about 1,5 bronze per iron ore.
At the other hand for making cast iron you should get less. The last time i looked cast iron sells at 325 bronze. That is more then enough.
Coal you need 50 times less but mining delivers you more than 1/50 of iron ore. There is something wrong in the formula.
So coal pays to much.

Maybe this message is better to be placed at the economic workgroup.

I wanted to get the games populations ideas on what they thought needed to be changed this thread is where it belongs. as the thread creator i ask that it not be moved. If you want it in the workshops area then copy it don't move it. thank you all for your input in this matter. We should really think and talk about this before we change anything.

First off, you make the costs of mining iron to be more than what they actually are... life points has so little effect in mining iron there's no reason to include it, you'll heal 2 life points everyday just from eating, and falling rocks isn't nearly as likely as mining coal, also there's the choice to run away from bambis and bears. Coal isn't in as much demand as iron, thus it's impossible to sell right now. Iron price is fine, only thing I still strongly believe needs changing is the coding for mining iron. As a lvl 60ish miner I make generally between 30-50 more iron than the minimum iron posible to be made... I don't even make +1 iron per lvl I have lol. Plus that's with Bob the Miner, which would put me at lvl 80.
I dunno, seems like bad coding, Aro likes it though.

so how is the new iron system working?

I'd recommend Camaar's price for iron bars be lowered a bit, both selling and buying prices. The market isn't moving, for what I'd assume is the expensive bars, it's much cheaper to go out alone and mine.

you recommend yet you give no numbers.

Well, I thought you'd be able to come up with the conclusion that what once was a pretty fair price (325 bronze or something like that) for an iron bar, now became grossly overpriced as the cost of creating an iron bar was cut in half. Such an update was well publicized.

I'll give you some numbers.
I made them just last weekend.
I used sales prices.

Iron Bar
50 iron ore a 2 bronze = 100 bronze
2 coal a 36 bronze = 72 bronze
5 stamina a 1 bronze = 3 bronze
Total cost is 175 bronze

So it should be even lower than 325 bronze.

so it only takes 5 stamina to make a bar?

well the stamina might depend on the skill lvl